Omega IV

Mystery Painting Description

by Dora and Annie

Mystery Painting

recreated by our Walter Hays partners

The paper is the shape of regular white drawing paper. It is a vertical rectangle. In the middle of the paper there is a black circle. The width of the circle is one-half the length of the paper. There is a blue circle inside the big black circle. The blue is a little bit darker than the blue in a Crayola Classic marker set. The blue circle is one-half the width of the black circle and is lined up from biggest to smallest. The blue circle is closer to the bottom of the black circle than to the top.

This painting is not fuzzy. It has straight curves and edges. Although it has no outlining. there is a darker blue line which is slightly curved, like a person smiling. It is halfway between the bottom of the painting and the middle. It goes all the way across the painting. The background is white with a tint of gray.

Alexander Liberman painted "Omega IV." It is in the Art Museum at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. Alexander painted it in the year 1956. The size is 80 by 60 inches.

Analysis

by Annie and Dora

Our partners painted the colors very well, especially the blue circle. The black circle is in the right place and they did the blue well. The shapes are what we told them to do.

We should have told them to use a hint of gray instead of saying a tint of gray. And we should have written that the short sides were on the top and bottom and that the long sides were on the left and right sides to make it easy to understand instead of saying vertically. In this sentence, "There is a darker blue line which is slightly curved, like a person smiling," we shouldn't have written like a person smiling. A better description would have been, "The line is slightly curved up at the ends."

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